Barack Obama’s A Promised Land has sold 1.7 million copies in the U.S. and Canada during its first week of publication, the largest week-one sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House, according to the publishers.The figure includes 887,000 in first-day sales, another record-breaking for Penguin Random House.
The sales numbers represent all formats.The memoir, published by Crown, a division of Penguin Random House, was released worldwide on November 17.
An unabridged audio edition of the book read by the author was published simultaneously by Penguin Random House Audio.The sales figure compares favorably to two recent presidential memoirs, George W.
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